north-north-west wrote:Instructions? I thought they just followed the guides (with the occasional 'baaaaaaa' and regular breaks to browse on the clover).
Oh no, now I see: they'll have specially trained kelpies to take the punters through. Droving, Australian Alps style - through the sheeps' eyes.
LOL. Maybe electric fences to keep out the wildlife, such as bushwalkers.
Xplora wrote:Conserving and protecting the natural environmental systems and landscape values within and adjacent to the Resort so as to minimise the disturbance to flora and fauna
communities and to areas of high scenic quality or visual sensitivity.
unless this interferes with our ability to turn a dollar.
It has been suggested there will be no snow on the mountain by 2050 so why are they encouraging further development in the resort? ... What happens outside the resort matters less to them.
In my view PV have breached their duty of care and their overall goal - to preserve national parks in as natural a state as possible. Regardless of the year, the length of usable snow cover will decrease, and at some stage a resort will not be viable because there will simply not be enough snow for enough skiers to cover fixed costs. Due to the wrong sort of weather being more frequesnt, and maybe less water, snow making is going to be limited. Also, due to less snow cover the snow making fixed costs will be hard to meet. I keep going back to economics, return on investment, net profit after tax and all that.
The focus has been on short-term issues, immediate profit, with scant regard for the more distant future. In many parts of my life I seek a balance between short-, medium- and long-term goals. The long-term goals may be beyond my life. There's portion of a poem that sums it up:
I'm only a boy from the bush near Fitzroy,
And I don't understand people's games.
But I just want to know where our children will go,
When none of our bushland remains.
Any answers? Lake Pedder, Tarkine, seeing Leadbeater's Possum?
I'm advised that PV was meant to have a Falls-Hotham plan including the December submissions out by about now. I've asked PV for a month about a few things but am getting the same answer - no reply. Does anyone know what is happening and when?
PV say:
"There are two campsites on the Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing: Cope Hut Campsite, amongst the snowgums on the Bogong High Plains, is 14km from the trailhead and usually the first night's campsite. Dibbins Hut Campsite is on a snowgrass plain near the headwaters of the Cobungra River.
A permit is required to camp at the Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing campsites."
Confusingly, this refers to the existing Falls-Hotham walk, via Dibbins. I think that the advice about camping on the "Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing campsites" is accurate in that it refers to the platforms. But it seems misleading in that I believe that camping 100 metres or more away does not attract a fee or require a permit.
Is the PV advice misleading and is a permit needed for camping away from the platforms at Cope and Dibbins Huts?